Baby elephant blood transfusion
p2pnet.net OT News:- Experts are hoping a blood transfusion will save the life of a very rare baby elephant born a few days ago at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada.
Yep. A blood transfusion.
The baby elephant’s first-time mother, Maharani, has never seen a baby before and doesn’t know what it is, head elephant keeper Bob Kam is quoted as saying in a CBC story
Maharani won’t allow her unnamed offspring to suckle, preventing it from getting important enzymes and antibodies that can’t be provided with artificial milk, it says.
“Zoo officials hope a special blood transfusion will give a baby elephant the infection-fighting antibodies it needs that it would normally get from mothers milk,” says CTV News.
“We are cautiously optimistic because she’s not in great shape,” zoo spokeswoman Trish Exton-Parder is quoted as saying.
With the help of Canadian Blood Services, vets took blood from two female elephants at the zoo and, ” It was sent to a Vancouver laboratory where the blood was processed and the plasma component extracted,” says CTV.
UPDATE:- According to various reports, the transfusion is apparently working and the baby ele is showing signs of improvement.
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See:-
very rare – Baby elephant at risk after mother’s rejection, CBC Online, November 25, 2004
cautiously optimistic – Rejected baby elephant given blood transfusion, CTV, November 26, 2004
November 27th, 2004 at 7:37 pm
your ot things are getting more and more ot =)
November 27th, 2004 at 8:13 pm
Firstly, I never do an OT post unless I find it genuinely interesting; and, secondly – and as I’ve said in the past – there’s method to my madness.
p2pnet exists to spread the word – to try to point up the bullshit being spread so liberally by the entertainment industry about p2 and file sharing. I get into other stuff too, but that’s my main focus.
So – the more people who visit the site, the more chance there is of demonstrating that as far as the entertainment industry is concerned, lies are just highly effective PR tools.
p2pnet is a Google and Yahoo news source. So if someone who hasn’t yet been polluted by the entertainment industry’s garbage comes to the site via an OT post which ended up on a Google News front page (as this story did), decides to surf p2pnet a little while he or she is here and in the process, sees our side of the story first, all to the good. No?
Cheers!
November 28th, 2004 at 1:03 am
This might be a good way to rope in more people to the site (and I enjoy reading some of these OT articles) but one thing to also consider is that the OT news also has the efffect of pushing the P2P news off the front page, which I’ve noticed now lists considerably fewer stories than it used to. After about 3 days on the front page, p2pnet news stories become rather hard to browse by slogging through the archives.
November 28th, 2004 at 1:11 am
—I’ve noticed now lists considerably fewer stories than it used to—
Actually, the index page lists exactly the same number of stories as always. But as you point out, as newer items go up, older ones are pushed down until they end up in the archives for that particular month.
It’s been a long time a-comin’, but I’m hoping we’ll have the new layout and site up soon. When that happens, there’ll be specific sections for specific topics – software, hardware, news, news features, Guest Writes, submissions, etc. There’ll also be a separate OT section.
November 28th, 2004 at 5:58 am
Hurm… couldn’t they just get milk from another mother elephant?
It’s odd that a blood transfusion was apparently simpler…
Maybe we need parental aid for animals in captivity.
November 28th, 2004 at 2:47 pm
Did they say where it came from?
Maybe it’s a Transylannian baby elephant.
November 28th, 2004 at 5:18 pm
That’s not a problem for me. They make a break from the other posts and they’re usually interesting.
November 28th, 2004 at 5:39 pm
That’s good news. Nice to see p2pnet expanding.
To see if I was going crazy thinking there used to be more story links on the front page, I went to archive.org and counted the number of front page articles.
Feb 17 2004: 40 articles
http://web.archive.org/web/20040208153305/p2pnet.net/index.php
Today: 34 articles
Though it’s not exactly the same page layout, and the comment numbers are not included, there are 6 fewer articles now compared to before.
November 28th, 2004 at 6:38 pm
You’re right. But that was before p2pnet went to its present layout (such as it is : )
However, not at all incidentally, I’ll soon be increasing the number of stories showing on the main page.
Cheers!